The weekend question does not rest in the face of "The non-denominational videogame marketing and announcement season formerly known as E3!" In case you're new: every week I ask the same question of PCG's staff and forums for a feature on the site. If you'd like your answer to be considered for next Saturday's article, sound off below!
This week's question is: Is there a game you love despite absolutely sucking at it?
As a card-carrying PC gamer, I love immersive sims - System Shock, Deus Ex, Gloomwood, Dishonored - it's a genre I adore. At the same time, I'm just so bad at them. On paper, Thief's expert mode with its expanded level objectives is the way to play the game, but I just can't do it - it's normal or bust for me. In Nightdive's System Shock, the combat encounters I've awkwardly stumbled through have far outnumbered my canny tactical coups.
And that's okay! I may never be "good" at immersive sims, but I'll always return to the genre no matter what, and the open-ended nature of those games makes my rare triumphs in them all the sweeter. I've got a sneaking suspicion every gamer has one such game or genre they love despite being very bad at it.
This week's question is: Is there a game you love despite absolutely sucking at it?
As a card-carrying PC gamer, I love immersive sims - System Shock, Deus Ex, Gloomwood, Dishonored - it's a genre I adore. At the same time, I'm just so bad at them. On paper, Thief's expert mode with its expanded level objectives is the way to play the game, but I just can't do it - it's normal or bust for me. In Nightdive's System Shock, the combat encounters I've awkwardly stumbled through have far outnumbered my canny tactical coups.
And that's okay! I may never be "good" at immersive sims, but I'll always return to the genre no matter what, and the open-ended nature of those games makes my rare triumphs in them all the sweeter. I've got a sneaking suspicion every gamer has one such game or genre they love despite being very bad at it.